BACKGROUND Kaposi's sarcoma is the most common secondary neoplasm to complicate HIV infection and may cause pulmonary disease. METHODS A prospective study was carried out in 140 consecutive patients who were HIV seropositive and required bronchoscopy for new respiratory symptoms of at least two weeks' duration, with either a chest radiographic abnormality or abnormality of pulmonary function....

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Danish Cancer Patient Pathway for sarcoma defines a set of alarm symptoms as criteria for referral to a sarcoma center. This may exclude cancer patients without alarm symptoms, so we investigated the presence of alarm symptoms (defined as being indicative of a sarcoma) in patients who had been referred to the Aarhus Sarcoma Center. PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed t...

The efficacy of current standard therapies for the treatment of sarcoma remains limited. With the aim of identifying target antigens relevant to the development of vaccine-based immunotherapy of sarcoma, we have addressed the relevance of tumor-specific antigens encoded by genes belonging to the SSX family as vaccine targets in sarcoma tumors. Expression of SSX-1 to -5 was analyzed in a collect...

In vitro, clonal BALB/3T3 mouse cells were transformed into nonproductive sarcoma cells by Kirsten murine sarcoma virus. The resulting cells are called K-BALB. Similarly, the Kirsten sarcoma virus and woolly monkey sarcoma virus transformed normal rat embryonic kidney (NRK) cells to nonproductive sarcoma cells K-NRK and W-NRK, respectively. The presence of sarcoma cell surface antigen (SCSA) on...

Accumulation of the DNA/RNA binding protein fused in sarcoma as cytoplasmic inclusions in neurons and glial cells is the pathological hallmark of all patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with mutations in FUS as well as in several subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, which are not associated with FUS mutations. The mechanisms leading to inclusion formation and fused in sarcoma-...

A l4 - year - old male patient with ewing sarcoma is presented and discussed, specially in respect of lo­calization and progress of the tumor.  Radiologic, bioptic, treatment and complica­tions of the disease are also discussed. 

Synovial sarcoma is malignant mesenchymal fuso-cellular tumor with variable epithelial differentiation. We present the rare case of young female patient with primary synovial sarcoma of the liver. Molecular diagnosis was done by detection of SYT/SSX fusion transcript. Patients with sarcoma should be treated only in high specialized centres.Key words: synovial sarcoma of the liver.

Immunosuppression is known to be associated with increased rate of malignancies and widespread dermatophytosis in the patients with sezary syndrome and this may account for the occurrence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and generalized dermatophytosis in patients in this report. Herein, we report a 58-year-old farmer man, who admitted with two months history of severely pruritic skin lesions, which p...

Kaposi's sarcoma is a tumor of vascular connective tissue that has been linked to human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) infection. Kaposi's sarcoma of the tonsil is a rare presentation that has been described in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients. Here we describe a patient with enlarged tonsils revealing bilateral tonsillar Kaposi's sarcoma. The patient presented with sore throat, facial pain, ...